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2022’s Top 10 Lab Stories Confirm Challenging Times
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXIX, No. 17 – December 12, 2022 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: There are valuable insights to be gleaned from The Dark Report’s “Top 10 Lab Industry Stories for 2022.” Several of this year’s story picks involve external forces reshaping healthcare in the United States in profound ways. Other story picks for 2022 illustrate …
July 18, 2022 Intelligence: Late-Breaking Lab News
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXIX, No. 10 – July 18, 2022 Issue
Given that monkeypox cases continue to rise, the federal government likewise is ramping up its response. In June, the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) began shipping monkeypox tests to five commercial laboratories: Aegis Science, Labcorp, Mayo Clinic La…
Pathology Firm’s Investment in AI Signals a New Trend
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXIX, No. 3 – February 22, 2022 Issue
This is an excerpt of a 1,436-word article in the February 22, 2022 issue of THE DARK REPORT (TDR). The full article is available to members of The Dark Intelligence Group. CEO SUMMARY: Australian artificial intelligence (AI) company Harrison.ai got AU$129 million from multiple inve…
Artificial Intelligence ‘Invades’ Pathology, Billing
By R. Lewis Dark | From the Volume XXIX, No. 3 – February 22, 2022 Issue
Predictions about the potential of artificial intelligence (AI) to transform nearly every area of healthcare are about to become reality. For the profession of laboratory medicine, AI is making speedy inroads into two areas. The first is anato…
Pathology Investment in AI Signals New Trend
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXIX, No. 3 – February 22, 2022 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Australian artificial intelligence (AI) company Harrison.ai got AU$129 million from multiple investors, including both Sonic Healthcare—Australia’s largest pathology group—and I-MED Radiology Network. Pathology’s growing interest in AI tools, along with the grow…
Sonic Healthcare Acquires ProPath, PathGroup Buys Path Consultants
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXIX, No. 2 – January 31, 2022 Issue
CONSOLIDATION AMONG PRIVATE PRACTICE ANATOMIC PATHOLOGY GROUPS continues with news that two large regional pathology groups decided to sell to larger pathology companies. The first transaction announced was on Dec. 16, 2021, when Sonic Healthcare …
December 20, 2021 Intelligence: Late-Breaking Lab News
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXVIII, No. 17 – December 20, 2021 Issue
In Europe, Switzerland-based Unilabs will be acquired by a Danish company. Unilabs owns laboratories in at least 11 European countries and posted revenue of €2 billion euros (US $2.26 billion) in the financial year ending September. The seller is Apax Partners, a private equity compan…
New Class of IVD Firms Wants to Serve POCT in Near-Patient Settings
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXVIII, No. 13 – September 27, 2021 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Our second installment in this series describes an emerging new clas…
Goodbye Clinical Labs! Hello Genetic Testing Labs!
By R. Lewis Dark | From the Volume XXVIII, No. 10 – July 26, 2021 Issue
IS THE CLASSIC MODEL OF THE INDEPENDENT PATHOLOGIST-OWNED CLINICAL LABORATORY that is the sole source provider of all routine, reference, and esoteric testing to physicians in its community on its way to extinction? There is strong evidence to support a “yes” answer to that question….
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Volume XXX No. 4 – March 6, 2023
Readers will uncover a theme of mergers and consolidations running throughout this issue of The Dark Report. Case in point is our story about the pending merger between Sanford Health and Fairview Health Services. If the deal goes through, the new system will have 58 hospitals across five states. The Dark Report also notes revenues from Labcorp’s acquisition of Ascension Health, and reports on the creation of a major MT training center in Utah.
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